• By: Keith     Date: 04-01-09
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Thanks for the transcript, my Greek aint what it used to be lol
 

• By: JonDonnis     Date: 30-12-08
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Transcript By Nectaria Hadjisergis
"I dont want to ask you about what you do, how you do it, are there any tricks etc...but rather about the reason why you do it. You've mentioned several times that you dont benefit from this financially, only through your sales of your books which as an author of course you have every right to do so, but the argument that you maintain of doing this in order to ease human pain i feel is-to put it mildly- "heavy"(meaning over-the-top) in my perception.

Do you know why i say this? Becasue following the loss of a loved one, grief is natural and only becomes pathological when prolongued. Conversing with spirits prolongues, in the mind of a person not only in Scotland as the previous psychologist mentioned, but also here in Greece where people always have believed in the existence of ghosts and i refer you to Homer, what you do prolongues this idea they that have conjured in their minds and thus prolongues their pain.

I don't think that this lady's pain has been eased, perhaps only during that second, but it would have been wiser in such a case to undergo therapy which would aim to eliminate this pain from the source. We are all mortals, and will all eventually die.

There is no point in prolonging, or rather it goes against science and medicine to prolongue grief in the human mind. Indeed, if I may say so, it borders on unethical in terms of medical ethics. Because we psychiatrists are trying to do exactly the opposite, we are trying to eradicate grief not prolongue it."